[CentOS-devel] please add vnconfig to minimal install CD

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Fri Aug 17 23:17:46 UTC 2012


On 08/17/2012 10:45 PM, Matthew Patton wrote:
> which is irrelevant. ifcfg scripts require the specially formatted files  
> to exist or be generated via NOW documents. Dynamic environments don't  
> hard code things like that.

agreed :)

> Having multiple copies of a 4G DVD iSO (I have sites all over the place)  
> really burns a lot of disk for no good reason. Or maybe "disk1" should be  
> like RHEL of yore? About <600MB and it had everything reasonable to expect  
> of a basic system?

Christoph pointed to these on irc a short while back :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714035 and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645796 - I think they are
both relevant here.

> While I'm at it, a minimal system shouldn't be lacking the following IMO.
> 
> bind-utils
> ntp
> nc
> man (the packages install all the manpages, so why not a way to read them?)
> wget
> 

Since the early days of CentOS-6, we've spoken about getting another
install type called the Lightweight Server media going - perhaps its
time to kick that effort back in a bit, and get these packages added in
( but it would still be quite nice to get a real user story, or stories
together as to the real problems we hope to fix with that ).

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